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BEETLES |
Common insects |
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GRYLLUS |
A genus of insects including the common crickets. |
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FORMICA |
A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the
common ants. See Ant. |
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MUSCA |
A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house
fly, and numerous allied species. |
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APIS |
A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the
common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See
Honeybee. |
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DERMESTES |
...ich
feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats,
skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius,
know... |
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MANTIS |
...n a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American
species is M. Carolina. ... |
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LEPISMA |
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elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by
seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found
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GORDIUS |
... hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely
diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs. ... |
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NEUTER |
... certain social insects, as
of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the
community, and are called workers. ... |
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CICADA |
...) is called the seventeen year locust.
Another common species is the dogday cicada. ... |